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by David Bacon Analysis The DACA youth, the “dreamers” are the true children of NAFTA – those who, more than anyone, paid the price for the agreement. Yet they are the ones now punished by the Trump administration as it takes away their legal status, their ability to work, and their right to live in …

In a shift from how it operated during the Obama administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is cracking down on relatives who let undocumented kids stay with them after entering the U.S. by Hannah Dreier This summer, a Kansas City man named Edwin got a call from immigration officials. They had picked up his nephew at …

As DACA’s end is announced, advocacy groups stand in defense of Dreamers by Dylan Gascon New America Media held a national press call on Thursday Sept. 7 addressing not only the future of the Dreamers, but a study on Dreamers’ contribution to the economy, as well as a personal story from a DACA recipient. This …

by Dylan Gascon At first glance, it would seem as if nothing was amiss in the seaside town of Laguna Beach. Visitors casually left their cars at the $10 a day parking lot to take a trolley shuttle toward the town, passing the local arts festival that happens at this time of year. Posters …

How insurance companies use a Florida law to get undocumented immigrants arrested and deported when they get injured on the job — and what it means in Trump’s America by Michael Grabell, ProPublica, and Howard Berkes, NPR At age 31, Nixon Arias cut a profile similar to many unauthorized immigrants in the United States. A …

Their deaths, after being crammed into an uncooled trailer amid scorching summer heat, expose the callousness of smuggling along the US-Mexico border by David Agren in Calvillo, Tom Dart in San Antonio and Nina Lakhani One day earlier this month, Johny Serna was brought by his mother to pray the rosary at a parish shrine …

Suit against Miami-Dade County claims Honduran-born Garland Creedle was illegally detained, as activists hope to restore Miami’s ‘sanctuary city’ status by Richard Luscombe In itself, Garland Creedle’s short stay at Miami’s Turner Guilford Knight correctional centre ought to have been unremarkable. Arrested after an alleged domestic dispute at his family’s home one evening in March, …

Trump and Peña Nieto met in Germany where trade was the chief topic Compiled by Mexico News Daily Despite an agreement between the leaders of Mexico and the United States that a border wall would no longer be the subject of public discussion by them, U.S. President Donald Trump today repeated earlier claims that Mexico …

American press silence by Justin Gardner The Free Thought Project A little-noticed public statement issued by the United Nations last week contains a dramatic shift in thinking on the issue of “illicit” substance use. After recommitting to the failed idea of prohibition just last year, the UN is now calling for the worldwide decriminalization of …

Indigenous Oaxacan farm workers win themselves a union in the Pacific Northwest by David Bacon Bob’s Burgers and Brew, a hamburger joint at the Cook Road freeway exit on Interstate 5, about two hours north of Seattle, doesn’t look like a place where Pacific Northwest farm workers can change their lives, much less make some …